Cameron Douglas, the 30 year old son of the actor Michael
Douglas and the grandson of the legendary actor Kirk Douglas has been arrested
in New York
on major drug distribution charges.

The young Douglas, who has worked as a sometimes DJ and who
appeared in the 2003 movie, “It Runs in the Family” with his father and
grandfather, had been under federal drugs investigation for three years and had
been witnessed selling multiple pounds of meth amphetamine during the course of
that investigation.

The DEA finally moved in on Douglas on July 28th
in Manhattan. Douglas
was staying in residence in a suite at the swanky Gansevoort Hotel in the city’s
meat packing district when DEA officials rushed in, finding Douglas
“strung out” on drugs, and the room a colossal mess.

DEA officials made the arrest after an informant revealed
that Douglas was acting as a “middleman” in the sale of about a half pound of
meth amphetamine bound for New York.
Federal officials caught up with the drugs on route and stormed in on Douglas for his role in the shipment. A half pound of meth
amphetamine has a street value of roughly $18 000.

Federal officials allege that over the past 3 years, Douglas dealt many pounds of methamphetamine, usually
shipping the drugs around the country via Fed Ex while using phony shipping
names. During the course of the investigation, Douglas
is recorded on video talking about the drugs, referring to meth as “pastry” or “bath
salts”.

This is not Douglas’s first
drugs arrest; he was arrested in 2007 and in 1999, both times on cocaine possession
charges.

Douglas is currently behind
bars on charges of intent to distribute more than 500 grams of crystal meth and
intent to distribute more than 50 grams of ice, a very potent form of meth
amphetamine.

Earlier this year, Star Magazine reported that Douglas was evicted from his $4200 a month rental home
after missing rent payments. The landlord told Star magazine that Douglas left the house in bad shape and left behind drug
paraphernalia.

The Douglas family has some
past experience in the pains of addiction - Michael having needed residential
alcohol addiction treatment in 1992; and Eric Douglas’s (Cameron’s uncle)
tragic drug overdose death in 2004.